East Meets West
Monday 2 July 2007 13:00-16:00 (Radio 3)
Presented by Penny Gore.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Live from London's Wigmore Hall, Sarah Walker introduces the Florestan Trio, who play three great works for piano trio which combine elegiac lyricism with Bohemian vitality
Playlist:
Susan Tomes (piano)
Anthony Marwood (violin)
Richard Lester (cello)
Haydn: Piano Trio in E flat
Suk: Elegie, Op 23
Dvorak: Piano Trio No 2 in G minor, Op 26
2.00pm
1/5. Musicologist Richard Langham Smith joins Penny Gore to introduce this week's theme, East Meets West, which focuses on Eastern performers as well as Western composers who were fascinated by 'the Orient'.
In this programme, Bizet, Saint-Saens and Ravel look East from France, Lang Lang and the China Philharmonic visit Europe, and Daniel Barenboim conducts his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, with players from practically every country and religious tradition in the Middle East.
Mozart: Overture (The Magic Flute)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Ravel: Sheherazade
Annick Massis (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Kees Bakels (conductor)
Bao Yuankai: China Airs
China Philharmonic Orchestra
Long Yu (conductor)
Bizet: Me voila seule...Comme autrefois (The Pearl Fishers)
Annick Massis (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Kees Bakels (conductor)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491
Lang Lang (piano)
China Philharmonic Orchestra
Long Yu (conductor)
Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila (Act 2, Sc 3)
Dalila ...... Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano)
Samson ...... Carl Tanner (tenor)
La Monnaie Orchestra, Brussels
Kazushi Ono (conductor)
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
